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The prototype of a Euclidean wormhole solution of Einstein gravity coupled to matter is the axion wormhole in four spacetime dimensions. In this primarily expository article, we spell out some details about this construction. The axion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Edward Witten

In recent, Kar.S et.al [ Phys Rev D 67,044005 (2003) ] have obtained static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Kalb-Ramond field equations. We have shown that their solutions, indeed, represent Wormholes.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , A. Ghosh

We present the first results of a self-consistent solution of the semiclassical Einstein field equations corresponding to a Lorentzian wormhole coupled to a quantum scalar field. The specific solution presented here represents a wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 David Hochberg , Arkadiy Popov , Sergey V. Sushkov

In this work, we analyse static spherically symmetric solutions in the framework of mimetic gravity, an extension of general relativity where the conformal degree of freedom of gravity is isolated in a covariant fashion. Here we extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Sunny Vagnozzi , Sergio Zerbini

In this paper, we explore static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in the framework of $n$-dimensional Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Our objective is to find out wormhole solutions that satisfy energy conditions. For this purpose,…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Shamaila Rani , Abdul Jawad

The paper deals with static traversable wormhole having shape function a polynomial of the radial coordinate of degree 2. Embedding of the wormholes in space-time is examined both analytically and graphically. Also both timelike and null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-03 Bikram Ghosh , Sourav Dutta , Sudeshna Mukerji , Subenoy Chakraborty

We consider static and spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in extended metric-affine theories of gravity supposing that stability and traversability of these objects can be achieved by means of the geometric degrees of freedom. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

Wormholes are fascinating alternatives to black hole geometries. In this paper, we have studied a special case of wormhole solution in the context of $R=0$ spacetime. Our approximate analytical calculations show that under a strictly static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Shauvik Biswas

In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We investigate all static spherically symmetric solutions in the context of general relativity surrounded by a minimally-coupled quintessence field, using dynamical system analysis. Applying the 1+1+2 formalism and introducing suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-29 Miguel Cruz , Apratim Ganguly , Radouane Gannouji , Genly Leon , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Noether symmetry has been invoked to explore the forms of a couple of coupling parameters and the potential appearing in a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity in the background of Robertson-Walker space-time. Exact solutions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Abhik Kumar Sanyal , Ranajit Mandal

We describe the analytical extension of certain static cylindrical multi--cosmic string metrics to wormhole spacetimes with only one region at spatial infinity, and investigate in detail the geometry of asymptotically Minkowskian wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Gerard Clement

We consider static, spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity with a nonlinear sigma model (NSM) as a source, i.e., a set of scalar fields $\Phi = (\Phi^1,...,\Phi^n)$ (so-called chiral fields) parametrizing a target space with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Chervon , S. V. Sushkov

In this work, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes with a conformally invariant Maxwell field for $N$-dimensional $F(R)$ gravity and constant scalar curvature $R$ are built. Two cases are considered: symmetric wormholes and asymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

Within the framework of $F(R)$ theories of gravity with (2+1)-dimensions and constant scalar curvature $R$, we construct a family of thin-shell wormholes with circular symmetry and we analyze the stability of the static configurations under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Cecilia Bejarano , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

I prove that general relativity admits no asymptotically well-behaved static spherically symmetric traversable wormholes supported by classical scalar fields and nonexotic matter. The theorem holds for all values of the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Luke M. Butcher

We review nonsingular static, spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity with a minimally coupled scalar field $\phi$ as a source. Considered are wormholes and regular black holes without a center, including black universes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-16 Kirill A. Bronnikov

The analytic solution of the general relativity equations for spherically symmetric wormholes are given. We investigate the special case of a "traversable" wormhole i.e., one allowing the signal to pass through it. The energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Shatskiy , I. D. Novikov , N. S. Kardashev

First, the ideas introduced in the wormhole research field since the work of Morris and Thorne are briefly reviewed, namely, the issues of energy conditions, wormhole construction, stability, time machines and astrophysical signatures.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose' P. S. Lemos , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Sergio Quinet de Oliveira

Based on the rigid positive energy theorem we proved the uniqueness of static spherically symmetric traversable wormholes with two asymptotically flat ends, being the higher-dimensional solutions of Einstein scalar phantom field. The proof…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Marek Rogatko